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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dearest one," (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "the consignment" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "trunk box" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
• This email message is a orphan scam.

Fraud email example:

From: monica <monica_h202@yahoo.co.jp>
Reply-To: monica4u_koromah@yahoo.cn
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:36:39 +0900 (JST)
Subject: From Miss Monica


Dearest One,

Greetings to you, I know this letter will be strange to you. It comes from a young 20 years old girl held up in a war country, Ivory Coast. I have been praying to God to give me somebody who will help me with my present condition since i have decided and made up my mind to relocate from here to
stay with you in your country to start up my life again as you help me receive this trunk box that is containing this fund in your country.

I am the only daughter of my late father and he was in government in Sierra Leone for about 3 years untill Johny Paul Kone seized power,my father ran down to Ivory Coast here with me to take refugge. Things have been ok,untill the killings and political situation here become a problem and before
he died, he deposited a trunk box containing the sum of $8.000,000 united state dollars with a private security company.With the documents issued to him which is on my posession now, the box is registered as family valuables and personal belogings just for the security of the fund and till date
the security company do not know the true content of the box.

I have contacted the security company for the claim and retrival of the trunk box in their custody and the director of the security company has agreed and promise to lift the box to my partner through their diplomatic means as soon as i appoint one since the political war here is geting worse.
Due to this i want you to act as my partner to receive the consignment box in your country for me and help to get me out of here as i dont want to trust blindly to loose everything i have inherited from my late father.

You can contact me with my private email address at.. monica4u_koromah@yahoo.cn

Hoping to hear from you urgently so as to give you more details..
Thank you and God bless you.
Miss Monica Koromah.






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